Nope, still Sister. It's really funny hearing your perspective on this, it's never crossed my mind that a man couldn't be called midwife or sister because that's just how it is! I'm liking your questioning of our status quo.
Guider, you have one turning 10 also? Why do they grow up so fast? My kids are 10 (on Friday) and 5 now, I can still remember the clueless 27 year old I was just before Daughter was born, and now I'm 37 with a kid about to be in double figures!
Why were you allowed to have a female OB at your delivery? She wasn't actually at my delivery. I was 2 weeks overdue and when you go one week overdue you have to meet with an OB to plan what happens if you go 2 weeks over. So she was overseeing things, but wasn't directly involved.
And Jen said to tell you the story of my son's delivery. I am not sure I should since you are pregnant in the UK system right now. In summary: I went to hospital in labour, for a water birth, was sent home because the midwives said I was going to have a long labour and I had him at home 90 minutes later, fortunately with a midwife who was called out and also a paramedic who'd never seen a birth and asked to stay. It was all's well that ends well though, C was fine and so was I and his sister got to meet him just minutes after he was born which was nice. In fact, if I had a third (which I won't as certain steps have been taken), I would have a home birth. There's lots of funny detail about it all, but that's the summary!
Guider- ah, WHAT? Not to sound like an ignorant idiot but wasn't there a lot of mess to clean up after giving birth at home?
I'm thinking about a water birth...except there is only ONE water birthing unit in my area and i'm not guaranteed it will be available. And they also send you home immediately after the birth, which freaks me out. But, you make it sound so nice to give birth at home.
Okay, I'm going to be the stereotypical American here and assert that I was thrilled to give birth in a hospital with lots o' drugs.
The first time, I had to, as I had complications and an emergency c-section was a possibility.
The second time, I wasn't a candidate for a midwife because of the complications related to the first time.
Plus, I was happy to have three nights in the hospital to recover afterward, as I was exhausted, plus I had an angry toddler at home who wouldn't have let me rest.
An American woman decides to uproot her 9 year old daughter (for the second time in two years) from their carefree, sunny, almost perfect life in the Middle East and move to England to be with the man of her dreams. How hard could it be to live in England?
Upon arriving and starting her new life in the most western region, Cornwall, she finds not only does she struggle more than she ever imagined, she realizes she is also a civilian living in a military world.
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Nope, still Sister. It's really funny hearing your perspective on this, it's never crossed my mind that a man couldn't be called midwife or sister because that's just how it is! I'm liking your questioning of our status quo.
Oops, sorry, just saw your questions from before!
Guider, you have one turning 10 also? Why do they grow up so fast?
My kids are 10 (on Friday) and 5 now, I can still remember the clueless 27 year old I was just before Daughter was born, and now I'm 37 with a kid about to be in double figures!
Why were you allowed to have a female OB at your delivery?
She wasn't actually at my delivery. I was 2 weeks overdue and when you go one week overdue you have to meet with an OB to plan what happens if you go 2 weeks over. So she was overseeing things, but wasn't directly involved.
And Jen said to tell you the story of my son's delivery. I am not sure I should since you are pregnant in the UK system right now.
In summary: I went to hospital in labour, for a water birth, was sent home because the midwives said I was going to have a long labour and I had him at home 90 minutes later, fortunately with a midwife who was called out and also a paramedic who'd never seen a birth and asked to stay. It was all's well that ends well though, C was fine and so was I and his sister got to meet him just minutes after he was born which was nice. In fact, if I had a third (which I won't as certain steps have been taken), I would have a home birth.
There's lots of funny detail about it all, but that's the summary!
Guider-
ah, WHAT? Not to sound like an ignorant idiot but wasn't there a lot of mess to clean up after giving birth at home?
I'm thinking about a water birth...except there is only ONE water birthing unit in my area and i'm not guaranteed it will be available. And they also send you home immediately after the birth, which freaks me out. But, you make it sound so nice to give birth at home.
Okay, I'm going to be the stereotypical American here and assert that I was thrilled to give birth in a hospital with lots o' drugs.
The first time, I had to, as I had complications and an emergency c-section was a possibility.
The second time, I wasn't a candidate for a midwife because of the complications related to the first time.
Plus, I was happy to have three nights in the hospital to recover afterward, as I was exhausted, plus I had an angry toddler at home who wouldn't have let me rest.
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